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Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible secondary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Use this tag when you want refer to one of the problems stated up.

I’m looking at a drive that failed (bad sectors). It was quick formatted and an attempt to install Windows failed. Then CloneZilla was used to make an image to an external HD. Ubuntu Disks reports 0% ...

I recently accidentally deleted a file from a shared partition (I have a dual boot system). However, I only find the recycle bin of Windows on the shared partition, but no recycle bin of Ubuntu. In ...

I've migrated from Windows to Ubuntu, So searching all those back up tools and software alternatives with Windows to Linux.
For Windows, there exists RECOVA, GetDataBack Disk recovery softwares; but ...

I'm in the midst of a hard drive recovery using gddrescue on Zorin 9 (Ubuntu variant). Both the source and destination drives are connected internally to my tower, and neither is the os drive. Neither ...

$ mount /root/Desktop/image.dd /root/mnt/recover -t ntfs
Failed to read last sector (625137344): Invalid argument
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
or it was not setup ...

Everything was working fine on my laptop, it always has... But when I restarted the other day, Ubuntu refused to do anything after the "decryption" screen (where you enter your password to decrypt the ...

I had windows 8.1 installed on a SSD drive, and I had a separate 2TB internal HDD where I stored all of my documents. The windows 8.1 installation died on me and refused to boot, so I decided to try ...

I followed all the instruction in the below link and was able to recover the lost windows partitions in the Windows when I installed Ubuntu.
Note, I used a live CD to run the process outlined in the ...

My roommates 2011 Macbook Pro died today. I made a flashbootable version of ubuntu and booted from it on his mac. I can move around his drive's directories, and while trying to solve this problem I ...

Scenario: I have got an hard disk partially reformatted by mistake using the recovery windows vista reinstall cd.
I would like to recover data. Its a 2,5" 110gigabites windows vista ntfs hard disk.
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My disk had two partitions one was an extended partition containing my root and swap space and the other was an ext4 partition. Recently I installed windows 8.1 on it by shrinking the ext4 partition ...

I am running a dual boot win8 and Ubuntu 14.04 on a qosmio x875. I had my laptop in my backpack and the backpack fell out of my car. When I opened it much later I found that one of the back plates was ...

I had 3 partitions on my hard drive and I tried to merge sda5 with sda6 but for some reason gparted crashed. Now when I try to mount sda5, all I find in it is lost+found.
I’m running Lubuntu 14.04.
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I am kinda desperate and any help will be appreciated.
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 on a Lenovo T530i, and my HDD was almost full.
I planned to buy an external HDD this week end and transfer some data, ...

I have encountered the "bootmgr is missing" error with my Windows 7 computer and I was not able to boot to Windows beforehand either. I am currently attempting to recover my files before I reformat ...

New to Ubuntu, we have a NAS drive that has a burned out board, inside the NAS are 2 x 2TB Drives with a RAID 1 COnfig.
I have been told to use Ubuntu to access the data on one of the Raid Drives, I ...

Here is the problem, I forgot my Ubuntu password. After doing some googling I found out to reset the password I need to access the recovery mode through the grub menu. However, back when I installed ...

It was a tar.gz archive (eclipse-java-luna-SR1a-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz) and was downloaded 100% due to wget-log.
Is there any way to recover this file without re-downloading? The size of local file ...

Short of it is earlier I had been using my Windows boot, decided to boot into Ubuntu and am greeted with a "The system is running in low graphics mode" message, from my live CD reinstall it - albeit ...

I have a 2TB portable hard drive from Western Digital that I have used over the years.
I use it on my home server to for NFS streaming. I have noticed recently while streaming some content it fails ...

My Ubuntu 14.04.1 setup freezes while I am on the internet, and now it won't start anymore. I get a black screen after login and I can't use Ctrl+Alt+F1.
When I run the recovery mode it gets stuck at ...